Architect Lead - Global Corporate Technology

Kenvue is currently recruiting for a:

Architect Lead - Global Corporate Technology

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Role reports to:

Enterprise Architecture Lead

Location:

North America, United States, New Jersey, Summit

Work Location:

Hybrid

What you will do

The Global Corporate Technology, Architect Director is a key organizational leader, responsible for the global assessment, direction, and implementation of the strategic architecture and technology required to achieve Kenvue’s business results within their functional area of expertise – Corporate Technology.  The Corporate Technology area primarily includes critical business functions such as HR, Finance, Procurement and Legal/Tax.

Ensuring that the technology landscape is strategically architected and managed, best-fit capabilities and solutions are architected and delivered, and that the technology landscape is maintained from a quality, compliance, and security perspective for their functional area globally.  This individual works closely with varied functions and levels across the organization, including business partners, internal Kenvue Tech & Data (KTD) associates, vendors, contractors, and executives/leaders. 

The Architect Lead is a strong listener, able to ensure collated business and technology strategies are reflected in an architectural vision and associated roadmaps that guide solution delivery teams and serve immediate and future business needs.  This individual is technically and organizationally savvy. 

Responsible for building and managing a team of solution architects globally that will support the initiatives and goals Kenvue has for their functional area.  This person will focus on ensuring the staff is in the right location and has the right technical breadth and depth to support current platforms and future technology direction. This individual will be accountable for hiring, developing, coaching, and mentoring staff, and leveraging vendors to augment staff as needed with contractors. This individual will develop and nurture stakeholder relationships and cultivate and strengthen relationships with vendors globally for their functional area.

The Architect Lead will be responsible for providing accurate capital and expense forecasts and helping assess and estimate future costs for staffing and technology services for their functional area.  This person will have an accountability to meet targets to reduce and manage the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for the technology spend in their functional area and for successful identification and removal/upgrading of end-of-life resources and eliminating technical debt.   

The Architect Lead will understand current and trending technology solution patterns and partner with technical leaders to identify, evaluate, and implement applicable technologies.  The Architect Lead will help to define reference architectures and ensure guidelines, standards, processes, and methodologies are established, communicated, and leveraged.

Major Duties & Responsibilities

• Demonstrates knowledge of Kenvue’s business model, key drivers, systems, technologies and support systems for their functional area (Corporate Technology)

• Provides leadership and accountability for Enterprise Architecture within their functional area globally, including defining roadmaps, supporting application and technology rationalization, identifying, and planning for reduction and elimination of technical debt, etc.

• Works with leadership teams, directors and manager